Suppression of stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) by means of chirped and tilted fiber Bragg gratings (CTFBGs) has become a key topic. However, research on high-power systems is still lacking due to two problems. Firstly, after the inscription, there are a large number of hydroxyl compounds and hydrogen molecules in CTFBGs that cause significant heating due to their strong infrared absorption. Secondly, CTFBGs can couple Stokes light from the core to the cladding and the coating, which causes serious heating in the coating of the CTFBG. Aimed at overcoming these bottlenecks, a process that combines constant-low-temperature and variable-high-temperature annealing is used to reduce the thermal slope of the CTFBG. Also, a segmented-corrosion cladding power stripping technology is used on the CTFBG to remove the Stokes light which is coupled to the cladding, which solves the problem of overheating in the coating of the CTFBG. Thereby, a CTFBG with both a kilowatt-level power-carrying load and the ability to suppress SRS in a fiber laser has been developed. Further, we establish a kW-level CW oscillator to test the CTFBG. Experimental results demonstrate that the power-carrying load of the CTFBG is close to 1 kW, the thermal slope is lower than $0.015\,^{\circ }\text{C}/\text{W}$, and the SRS suppression ratio is nearly 23 dB.
Two long-period fiber gratings (LPFGs) used to separately suppress the stimulated-Raman-scattering (SRS) in the seed and amplifier of kW-level continuous-wave (CW) MOPA fiber laser are developed in this paper. A process that combines constant-low-temperature and dynamic-high-temperature annealing was employed to reduce the thermal slopes of 10/130 µm (diameter of core/cladding fiber) and 14/250 LPFGs, used in the seed and amplifier respectively, from 0.48 °C/W to 0.04 °C/W and from 0.53 °C/W to 0.038 °C/W. We also proposed a reduced-sensitivity packaging method to effectively reduce the influence of axial-stress, bending, and environmental temperature on LPFGs. Further, we established a kW-level CW MOPA system to test SRS suppression performance of the LPFGs. Experimental results demonstrated that the SRS suppression ratios of the 10/130 and 14/250 LPFGs exceed 97.0% and 99.6%, respectively.
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